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...foes of apartheid have come up with a new, potentially more devastating weapon: a boycott against athletes from other nations guilty of playing in, or having other ties to, South Africa. Last month Nigeria detained three visiting British tennis pros because they had played the South African summer circuit. Guyana expelled a visiting British cricketer with South African connections, only to have the entire English team leave in a huff before the first match was played. Then, earlier this month, Trinidad canceled a planned visit by the Tampa Bay Rowdies because three of the soccer team's players come...
...those who have visited there for sporting events, but also athletes who play against South African teams on their own soil. Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Floyd Patterson was named simply because he attended a boxing bout held in South Africa as a spectator. The British cricketer expelled from Guyana, Robin Jackman, was so treated because he is married to a South African and spends the whiter in that country. Fearing boycotts, Australia has even refused the South African Springbok rugby team permission to land there on its way to New Zealand this summer...
...years ago; the Soviet invasion there was a devastating setback to Fidel Castro's attempt to achieve permanent leadership for Cuba in the movement and to establish a kind of godfather status for the U.S.S.R. as the natural ally of nonalignment. States as diverse as Burma, Mozambique and Guyana have begun to distance themselves from the U.S.S.R...
Under a new constitution that Guyana's rubber-stamp parliament approved in October, Burnham gained virtually limitless authority as President and Commander in Chief. Nonetheless, he called for another show of support-specifically, 75% of the electorate. Opposition candidates were not allowed to see a list of eligible voters, even after the government blithely removed more than 111,000 names, or about 20% of the electorate. There are accusations that other names have been added, including those of victims of the 1978 Jonestown massacre...
Burnham has engineered substantial flows of Western aid (including $47 million pledged in the past four years from the U.S.) by warning against the perils of a victory by his Communist rival, Dr. Cheddi Jagan, 62, who was Guyana's Premier between 1957 and 1964. Particularly helpful was a $125 million credit line approved by the International Monetary Fund last July. Burnham has also sought favor with African and Communist bloc countries by nationalizing 80% of the Guyanese economy, including bauxite mines once owned by Alcan and Reynolds Metals. Although Guyana still has close relations with Cuba, Burnham promptly...